Hellenistic Greek (190-100 BCE) Flashcards

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Winged victory of Samothrace

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Crowning a naval victor
Dedicated by the people of Rhodes after a naval victory
Might have had a reflecting pool
Clinging of the drapery is inherited by Classical Greek art

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Winged victory of Samothrace IDs

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Hellenistic Greek
190 BCE
Marble

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Seated boxer IDs

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Hellenistic Greek
100 BCE
Bronze

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Seated boxer

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Shows realities of boxers life
Feeling pain is human (common experience)
Shows exhaustion and cuts/bruises/ injuries
Most classical statues show athletes get peak while this focuses on the pain

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Hellenistic Greek

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Greece dissolves
Art is overly emotion and painful
Experiences emotions and subjects never seen before

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Great Altar of Zeus and Athena

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Ionic structure (volutes, bases, continous frieze)
High relief frieze (showing chaos of battle between Pergamon and Galls)
Largest sculptural piece in the ancient world
Sacrificial space
Hellenistic (movement and emotion)

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Great Altar of Zeus and Athena IDS

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Pergamon, Asia Minor
175 BCE
Hellenistic Greek
Marble

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